. Pennsylvania railroad to the Columbian exposition . IfIf flU |||t ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. been divided in its height into three principal stages. Thefirst, consisting of the four pavilions, corresponding in heightwith the various buildings grouped about it, w^hich are aboutsixty-five feet high ; the second stage of the same height, acontinuation of the central rotunda ; and the third stage, thebase of the great dome, thirty feet in height and octagonal inform, and the great dome itself, which is over one-third theheight of the entire structure. 103 Oil the panels of the first story are insc
. Pennsylvania railroad to the Columbian exposition . IfIf flU |||t ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. been divided in its height into three principal stages. Thefirst, consisting of the four pavilions, corresponding in heightwith the various buildings grouped about it, w^hich are aboutsixty-five feet high ; the second stage of the same height, acontinuation of the central rotunda ; and the third stage, thebase of the great dome, thirty feet in height and octagonal inform, and the great dome itself, which is over one-third theheight of the entire structure. 103 Oil the panels of the first story are inscriptions detailing factsin the life of Columbus, and the names of discoverers of conti-nents or portions of continents, and when you have entered byone of the fifty-feet wide, deeply recessed, and semi-circulararched portals, you find upon the interior still more inscriptionsrecording important discoveries in science and the names of thediscoverers. The interior features of the building approach, if they do notexceed, in beauty and splendor those of
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